98 MAINE AGRICULTURAL LXPERIMENT STATION. I906. 



Ash in Beef Scraps, Meals, Etc. 



fl 9 



li 



93 c 



Brand. 



Manufacturer. 



a 



li 



?,0fi3 



Bowker'a B€ef Scrap 



Bowker Fertilizer Company 



Cypher's Incubator Company 



Cornell Manufacturing Company.. 



Portland Rendering Company 



Bowker Feitilizer Company 



Bowker Fertilizer Company 



J. C. Dow Company, Boston 



19 22 



?n64 



Cypher's Beef Scrap 



19.76 



2065 



Cornell Beef Scrap 



24 46 



ftflSl 



Beef Scrap 



22 6fe 



?104 



Bo'wker's Animal M eal 



35.46 



21fi6 



Bowker's .inimal Meal 



42.98 



21 Of) 



Dow's Beef Scrap ... 



15 65 



2117 



Armour Beef Scrap 



3.91 



2159 



2?,15 



Bone and Meat Meal for Poultry 



Purity Beef Scrap 



Portland Rendering Company 



Geo. B. Haskell Company 



36.18 

 11.08 









CONDIMIJNTAL FoODS. 



Although named in the law, the attorney general ruled that, 

 since condimental foods are sold as medicines and not as food 

 they do not come under the law. 



Fortunately in the condimental foods offered, injurious drugs 

 are not found. In addition to common feeding stuffs they con- 

 sist for the most part of old-time simple remedies of mildly cura- 

 tive powers. The claims made for these materials are as ridicu- 

 lously extravagant as those made for patent medicines designed 

 for the use of man. The absurd testimonials used in their sup- 

 port are doubtless genuine, but are made by people who can not 

 or do not understand the relations of cause and effect. 



Facts to he Remembered. 



The mixture of ingredients contained in the ordinary foods 

 comprises all that are known either to practice or science as 

 useful to animal life. 



The ordinary cattle foods, supply animal nutrition in the most 

 useful and economical forms. 



Condimental foods are absurd as medicines. If an animal is 

 well no medicine is needed, if ill, remedies adapted to the case 

 should be administered. 



The farmer can manufacture his own " condimental " food at 

 a fraction of their usual cost, by mixing a small amount of such 

 common substances as salt, sulphur, saltpeter, fenugreek, cara- 



